^[1] Lang Hancock, quoted in Michael Coyne and Leigh Edwards, The Oz Factor: Who’s Doing What in Australia, (East Malvern, 1990), p. 68.

^[2] Quoted from a conversation with a Canberra bank manager, Canberra, February, 1980.

^[3] Gerald L. Bostock, ‘An Australian Miner’, in Black Man Coming, (Sydney, 1981), p. 11.

^[4] Quoted from Bruce McGuinness’s paper, ‘The Politics of Aboriginal Literature’, in Jack Davis and Bob Hodge, eds, Aboriginal Writing Today, (Canberra, 1985), pp. 49-50.

^[5] Quoted from Colin Johnson’s paper, ‘White Forms, Aboriginal Content’, in ibid., p. 29.

^[6] Quoted from Mick Miller’s speech at the launching of Lionel Fogarty’s Yoogum Yoogum, Queensland Institute of Technology, Brisbane, September, 1982.

^[7] Quoted in Adam Shoemaker, ‘An Interview with Jack Davis’, Westerly, vol. 27, no. 4, December, 1982, p. 116.

^[8] Personal interview with Charles Perkins, Canberra, January, 1983.

^[9] This information kindly provided by Archie Weller during a personal interview in Canberra, May, 1984.

^[10] Quoted from Bruce McGuinness’s paper ‘The Politics of Aboriginal Literature’ in Davis and Hodge, eds, Aboriginal Writing Today, pp. 46-47.

^[11] Quoted from Jack Davis’s speech at the biennial conference of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra, May, 1984.

^[12] Information supplied by Colin Johnson and Glenyse Ward in personal discussions in Brisbane, May, 1988.

^[13] See, for example, ‘Parliament Mosaic “Puts a Curse on Whites”‘, The Australian, 10 May, 1988, p. 1.

^[14] W. Les Russell, ‘God Gave Us Trees to Cut Down’ in Kevin Gilbert, ed., Inside Black Australia, (Ringwood, 1988), p. 6.

^[15] Maureen Watson, ‘Memo to J.C.’, in ibid., p. 50.

^[16] Robert Walker, ‘Solitary Confinement’, in ibid., p. 129.

^[17] Ernie Dingo, ‘Aboriginal Achievement’, in ibid., p. 29.

^[18] Geoff McDonald, Red Over Black: Behind the Aboriginal Land Rights, (Bullsbrook, 1982), pp. 141-142.

^[19] ibid., p. 142.

^[20] Quoted in Robert Bowden, ‘Walsh Backs Morgan on NT Land Rights’, The Australian, 13 May 1984, p. 2.

^[21] J.J. Healy, Literature and the Aborigine in Australia, (St. Lucia, 1978), p. 3.

^[22] Personal interview with Charles Perkins, Canberra, January, 1983.

^[23] Kevin Gilbert, ‘Because a White Man’ll Never Do It’, (Sydney, 1973), p. 193.

^[24] Quoted by Colin Johnson in his paper, ‘White Forms, Aboriginal Content’, in Davis and Hodge, eds, Aboriginal Writing Today, (Canberra, 1985), p. 30.

^[25] McDonald, Red Over Black, p. 142.

^[26] Admittedly, this usage of the term has an anthropological connotation, which partly explains its more ready acceptance in North America.

^[27] Hugh Collins, ‘Aborigines and Australian Foreign Policy: Some Underlying Issues’, in Coral Bell, et al., eds, Ethnic Minorities and Australian Foreign Policy, (Canberra, 1983), p. 69.

^[28] Bernard Smith, ‘Five Choices of Culture’, The Age Monthly Review, vol. 2, no. 7, November, 1982, pp. 9-10.

^[29] Professor J.E. Chamberlin has pointed out the fact that North American lawyers representing Indian clients in land claims cases have successfully argued more fluid definitions of the concept of nationhood before the courts. This point was made during personal discussions in Sydney, July, 1984.

^[30] Quotation taken from Ruby Hammond’s comments concerning Jeremy Beckett’s paper, ‘Aborigines and Welfare Colonialism’, delivered in ‘The State and Ethnic Minorities’ section of the ANZAAS Conference, Canberra, May, 1984.

^[31] Collins, ‘Aborigines and Australian Foreign Policy’, p. 69.

^[32] Personal interview with Colin Johnson, Brisbane, August, 1980.

^[33] Personal interview with Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Brisbane, August, 1980.

^[34] Personal interview with Gerry Bostock, Sydney, July, 1980.

^[35] Quoted from Jim Everett’s speech at the biennial conference of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra, May, 1984.

^[36] Quoted from Gary Foley’s speech at the Australian National Playwrights’ Conference, ANU, Canberra, May, 1984. Foley’s view is revealing. If one examines his statement, one notes the admission of ignorance concerning sexism – yet sexual prejudice often reinforces racial prejudice in relationships between Black and White Australians. Much work remains to be done regarding the connection between sexism and racism in Australia for, as Pat O’Shane has observed, ‘Quite frequently in our dealings in Australia – Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal – racism and sexism are so entangled that they cannot be disentangled’ (Quoted from Pat O’Shane’s speech at the ANU, February, 1983).

^[37] John R.W. Smail, ‘On the Possibility of an Autonomous History of Modern Southeast Asia’, Journal of Southeast Asian History, vol. 2, 1961, pp. 72-102.

^[38] David Callaghan, ‘What Future the Aborigine?’, in TIME Australia, vol. 3, no. 32, 8 August, 1988, p. 13.

^[39] Quoted from Bruce McGuinness’s paper, ‘The Politics of Aboriginal Literature’ in Aboriginal Writing Today, p. 47.

^[40] Quoted in Adam Shoemaker, ‘An Interview With Jack Davis’, Westerly, December, 1982, p. 114.

^[41] Personal interview with Maureen Watson, Perth, February, 1983.